Family Campout

It has been another year and time for another

Pritchard family campout. We stayed at the

Petrified Forest campground in Southern Utah.

Who knew it was going to be so nice! We had perfect

weather and the camp ground was great, it had

hot running water in the bathrooms with

flushing toilets, hot showers, a dish/fish cleaning

station and plenty of big cotton wood shady trees. But best of all we

had a lake! Mom and Ron joined us on Saturday to have

dinner and celebrate Ron's 100th birthday! We took some fun

short hikes, went canoeing and swimming, told fun stories around the campfire

(uncle Rick has a blast scaring the kids) and on the way home we

stopped to take a look at Bryce Canyon. The best part of the

entire trip was just watching the kids/cousins running around

playing and have the time of thier lives!

Looks like tree stumps but they are now petrified rocks

Maddie holding some petrified wood

Joe, Megan and family

The kids

The Vorkink family & Christian

The Utykanski gang

Seth

Grandpa & Seth

The view coming down from our hike to the

Petrified Forest

Rick & Nicki

Mike and his "little me" son Ethan

Sarah and the kids

Joe and Rick taking the kids on canoe rides

Watching the kids swim and relaxing: Mom, Susie and Erin

Who's next?

Seth

Beautiful Susie and Seth - I just love these two!

Happy 100th Ron!

Carson

Damon

Jed

Milly, Christian and Lauren

Erin and Ethan before the big rain storm hit

The kids having dinner and taking shelter from the

pouring rain

My handsome hubby

Mom, Joe and Ron

Everything got quite wet

Off to the lake

Red light, green light

We walked/hiked to some slick rocks where the kids

has a blast sliding down the rock

Seth

Beautiful view

Ethan cautiously sliding down the rock

Laurn lost her tooth while sliding she had to chase

it down the rock but she caught it - she was a little bloody

after that but very excited to see if the tooth-fairy would

come to the campsite - and sure enough she did!

The kids at Fairyland - Bryce Canyon

Rick

Rick and me

Susie and Seth

The fun had to come to an end - the kids were

sulking because they had just been told it was time to go.